Grizzlies once roamed the Cascades; some people want them to return

STETATTLE CREEK, North Cascades — Bubbles tumbled and danced on the surface of this creek as stones interrupted the flow of the aquamarine water, once home to spring Chinook and steelhead, below the bank where Scott Schuyler and his daughter Janelle walked in early November. Stetattle was derived from stəbtabəl' (stub-tahb-elh), or grizzly bear, in the Lushootseed language spoken by the Upper Skagit people who lived on these lands for at least 10,000 years. But grizzlies haven't lived here for decades. Today, federal agencies have offered up three potential plans for grizzlies' future in the N...